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Shhhhh nobody tell Brandon I'm uploading his gift the day before his birthday because its more convenient for my upload schedule, or that I planted indisputable evidence of criminal collaboration with the Polish mafia on his person. The look on his face when the FBI raids his house will be absolutely hilarious!
Design notes, now that all of my friends have reference sheets, I can actually use them to… you know… reference from XD Even I sometimes forget that all these people I draw are actually meant to be sheets for how they'd appear as characters in the Drake Hero Universe instead of just set dressing for my history/mythology research blog. This one is not the Drake Hero Universe though, obviously. Went full Assassin's Creed for Brandon here because as much as we pretend we're not stuck in an abusive relationship with Ubisoft… umm… ahh I'll think of a way to finish that sentence later. I definitely chose to use the AC2/Brotherhood Animus backdrop because the Ezio games are Brandon's favorite and not because they're stark white and therefore easier to draw. In the foreground we got Brandon's persona with all his Animus explorations behind him: Thomas A. Johnson, Caleb and Jackson McCride, and the Passerini brothers, all atop what would've been the tallest buildings in their hometown at the time. That turned out to be trickier to pull off than I'd expected. Not for lack of knowing which buildings they were, mind you, that's a pretty simple Google search. Rather, there's just no room to make the landmarks recognizable because buildings, get this, are really fuckin big, and people are relatively small. I think I struck a good balance, though.
If anyone complains about how my lines aren't straight because colored pencils by their nature warp my paper beyond what can be corrected in my scanner, Brandon won't be the only one with the feds on his doorstep for involvement with the Polish mafia.